Marcel Kasumovich

Only recently caught the marathon bug, running his first in New York in 2004 (3.10) and his second in Boston, 2005. Marcel is also a supporter of the annual Around the Bay 30k in Hamilton, Ontario, which predates Boston as North America's oldest road race. Although not a lover of the cold, Marcel is nevertheless stubborn and plans to train on the snowy plains of Ottawa as well as upstate New York. He will prepare for encounters with polar bears by fleeing from the rare but vicious snow chipmunks indigenous to the Great White North! Although a New York City resident, the 35 year-old economist runs under the Stoney Creek flag, a small Canadian town in the province of Ontario that is famous for Canada's victory in the war of 1812.